A number of genome-wide association studies have reported several variants that influence the risk of lung cancer in never- smoking females. We evaluated the impact of these variants on survival outcome in never-smoking females with non-small cell lun...
A number of genome-wide association studies have reported several variants that influence the risk of lung cancer in never- smoking females. We evaluated the impact of these variants on survival outcome in never-smoking females with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In total, 510 never-smoking females with NSCLC who underwent curative surgery were enrolled. Eleven variants associated with lung cancer susceptibility in never-smoking females, were genotyped and their associations with survival outcome were analyzed. Among these 11 variants, TP63 rs7631358 and CSF1R rs10079250 affected survival outcomes. TP63 rs7631358 G>A was associated with a relatively worse overall survival (under a dominant model; hazard ratio = 2.31, 95% confidence interval = 1.18-4.52, P = 0.01). CSF1R rs10079250 A>G was associated with a relatively better disease- free survival (under a codominant model; hazard ratio = 0.70, 95% confidence interval = 0.53-0.93, P = 0.01). These results suggest that TP63 rs7631358 G>A and CSF1R rs10079250 A>G may affect the prognosis of NSCLC in never-smoking females, as well as the risk of lung cancer.